Full Description
Dissonant Methods is an innovative collection that probes how, by approaching teaching creatively, postsecondary instructors can resist the constrictions of neoliberalism. Based on the foundations of Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, whereby educators are asked to explore teaching as scholarship, these essays offer concrete and practical meditations on resistant and sustainable teaching. The contributors seek to undermine forms of oppression frequently found in higher education, and instead advance a vision of the university that upholds ideals such as critical thinking, creativity, and inclusivity. Essential reading for faculty and graduate students in the humanities, Dissonant Methods offers urgent, galvanizing ideas for anyone currently teaching in a college or university. Contributors: Kathy Cawsey, Kit Dobson, Ada S. Jaarsma, Rachel Jones, Kyle Kinaschuk, Namrata Mitra, Guy Obrecht, Katja K. Pettinen, Kaitlin Rothberger, Ely Shipley, Martin Shuster
Contents
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction / ADA S. JAARSMA
I The Event
1 | Education for the World / MARTIN SHUSTER
2 | Pedagogy, Event, Risk / KYLE KINASCHUK
3 | When the "Event" Happens / KATHY CAWSEY
Intermezzo: The Practice Is the Teacher / ELY SHIPLEY
II Embodiment
4 | The Ecology of Attention / KATJA K. PETTINEN
5 | Modes of Hearing in Music Appreciation / GUY OBRECHT
Intermezzo: Bruised Tomatoes / KAITLIN ROTHBERGER
III The Political
6 | Practising How We Read What We Read / NAMRATA MITRA
7 | Dissonance, Resistance, and Perspectival Pedagogies / RACHEL JONES
Afterword / KIT DOBSON
Contributors
